Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd Series, Volume 105

Derek B.M. Ross, LL.B. (Western), LL.M. (Toronto), is Executive Director and General Counsel for Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF). He has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has acted for public interest interveners in a number of cases involving the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He has also appeared before legislative and Parliamentary committees to present on legal and constitutional issues.

Derek is a centre associate with the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Constitutional Law and Legal Studies, and a former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section. Derek also served as editor/co-editor of Assisted Death: Legal, Social and Ethical Issues after Carter (2018), Canadian Pluralism and the Charter: Moral Diversity in a Free and Democratic Society (2019), The Forgotten Fundamental Freedoms of the Charter (2020), and Forgotten Foundations of the Canadian Constitution (2022).

Brian Bird is a Lecturer at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. In 2019-2020, Brian was a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His research focuses on constitutional law, constitutional theory, and human rights. His writing on these topics has appeared in several academic journals and media outlets. A lawyer by training, Brian clerked for judges at the Supreme Court of British Columbia and for Justice Andromache Karakatsanis at the Supreme Court of Canada. Brian completed his doctorate in law at McGill University. He also holds a B.C.L. from the University of Oxford, a J.D. from the University of Victoria, and a B.A. from Simon Fraser University.